What your July 2023 looked like

At the end of every month, we open our inbox to photographs from anyone and everyone and run a selection of our favourites — just email photography@i-d.co to be considered with your name, age, location, Instagram handle, and a line or two about the image.

If your image hasn’t made the cut, please don’t be discouraged and do keep sending us your photography. We receive thousands of submissions!

a young Black child in an oversized brown T-shirt looks to the camera, half obscured by shadow

Shawn Newson, 21, Cotonou, Benin

“Taken during a weekend spent outside the city. As my friends conversed behind me, I noticed this silent young observer, absorbed by the scene.” @shawnpicture__

a person wearing black jeans and a white bra sleeps half-submerged in a blue kiddypool, facing away from the camera

Susanna Giancristofaro, 23, Abruzzo, Italy

“It’s 33 degrees outside. Lucia’s fallen asleep in the pool.” @sug.opomodoro

a black and white image of a smiling person with cropped hair holding hands with two unseen friends in a mosh pit; he is surrounded by other people

Berber van der Linden, 18, Rotterdam, Netherlands

“My lovely friend holding the hands of me and my friend to protect us in the moshpit at a festival.” @berber.vanderlinden

Two young Black men ride bikes along a sunny street in Moontown, Barbados. Behind them is a green wall and a couple of palm trees set against a bright blue sky.

Jamar Silva, 25, Bridgetown, Barbados

“Capturing the essence of pure friendship while wandering through Moontown, Barbados. These two boys reminded me that some of life’s most beautiful moments are found in the simplest of connections.” @lextookit

A woman eats pho from a bowl on a table full of food; behind her, in the living space of an apartment, a grandmother and young child relax on a sofa bed

Elinor Kry, 19, New York, USA

“Our first morning in Saigon. Relatives we had just met stayed over with us. The food on the table is fresh from the market that day.” @elinorkry

A young person with blonde hair sits in the backseat of a car; the window is down and her hair is blowing across her face. She smiles slightly .

Anima, 20, Berlin, Germany

“On the way to a festival. In this very moment everything was okay and our favourite tunes were playing in the background.” @animaevva

young kids and teens sit in the boot of a car and look up at fireworks

Ethan Jordan, 21, Maryland, USA

“4th of July is the one time my whole family comes together during the year. My cousin always does fireworks.” @purplehaze.ig

Nicholas Santo, 21, Pennsylvania, USA

“This photo was taken in my first-ever college apartment with my friend Judas.” @Nicholassanto_

Two young, fully clothed people run together on a busy beach; they're laughing and their movement is slightly out of focus.

Cheng Zhuang, 16, Zhanjiang, China

“Last day of high school by the ocean. The seniors don’t know when they will see each other again. A sense of reckless love is in the air.” @chengzphoto

Two Swedish teens (one in a red knit sweater and the other in a hoodie and baker boy hat) lay on a beach blanket together

Fanny Hægerström, 18, Stockholm, Sweden

“My friends taking a nap on the beach at the beginning of the month. In the Swedish archipelago it gets cold even during the summer, hence the sweaters.” @fannyhaegerstrom

a high-angle shot down into a moshpit at an outside concert; people are smiling and a girl has just fallen on the floor in the centre of the scene.

Jon Del Real, 25, California, USA

“In the mosh pit of a Julie set at an LA backyard show. The girl on the ground fell off the shoulders of the guy carrying her. She was picked up shortly afterwards.” @jondelreal

A young Black woman with long braids stands side-on in front of two exhibition portraits of women with similar braids.

Mahamadou Sangaré, 24, Bamako, Mali

“When we went to the gallery, we didn’t expect to see work about braids.” @tylerr_sang

Salah-Eddine Mouslim, 21, Oulad Teima, Morocco

“At the circus I managed to capture the wonderment of the candy seller.” @thesedmou

Two people sunbathe, laying on towels spread out on a wooden dock in Copenhagen. They're both topless, one covering the other's chest.

Sofiarose Mineghino, 23, Copenhagen, Denmark

“A hangover cured by a mushroom micro-dose and the rare but ever welcome Danish sun.” @sofiarosefaziomineghino

Four young people sit in the back of a cab; they look tired and a little worse for wear.

Ali Rendich-Quinlan, 18, New York, USA

“A rare moment of exhaustion after my friends and I left a club.” @alirqqq

Lydia Lee, 20, Incheon, South Korea

“This year my grandmother’s dementia worsened. But when she silently reads the newspaper in the living room where I spent so many of my childhood summers, it feels as if nothing much has changed.” @lydiyea

Credits

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